Our architectural design team use ABD-SS3, while all our consulting team use Revit. How do we make the information generated from Bentley Navigator such as design review information, red lining, and so on available to them to action and in what format? They use Navis works for query and interrogation, Can the two programs talk to each other and exchange data?
you can use the Revit Data in Bentley Navigator with the Revit I-Model Plugin. Do you know how to query Data in Navigator(Clash DEtection,Schedule Simualtion,..)?
www.bentley.com/.../imodel+plugin+revit.htm
Yes I do, but it has been a while. A quick recap will be required on my part. I was under the impression that it was the Revit users that have to down load the plugin to output to i-model, and that is this model that Navigator can query, or are you saying there is another plugin that Bentley users have to use to access revit data in bentley navigator?
Many thanks
The Revit users will need to use the i-model plug-in for Revit to generate an i-model to use in Navigator. Autodesk does not allow any other software to read the RVT format. The advantage of using an i-model is that it is a compressed format that still contains accurate geometry and all of the data of the original model.
You can download the plug-in here:
Navigator can open and display i-models, dgn files, dwg files and IFC files. (though it is much faster to use i-models.)
Answer Verified By: Jydeda
FWIW, I was invited to a local Revit User's group to talk i-models. You can find that presentation at: kcrug.wordpress.com/.../september-notes-imodels
Thanks,
Shawn
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